The OIOP Lecture Series

(L-R) Advocate M P Vashi, Ms Manju Nichani,
Retd Justice H Suresh and Mr Sadanand Shetty
One India One People organized its first lecture under the ‘The OIOP Lecture Series’ at K C College on October 7, 2002. The topic for the evening, ‘Courting Justice, Dismissing Delays', created awareness about the delays in the justice delivery. It also highlighted how these delays can be remedied. Two legal luminaries - Justice H Suresh (retired) of the Bombay High Court and Advocate M P Vashi -spoke on the occasion.

Justice Suresh spoke on judicial accountability. He questioned the accountability of judges and highlighted the judiciary’s bias towards the rich. He kept driving home the point that the judges were not accountable and there was an urgent need to evoke a method to establish their accountability.

Advocate Vashi’s talk was very hard hitting. He emphasized the fact that people were slowly losing faith in the judiciary. He said, “There is an urgent need for action. If the judiciary collapses, then the citizens will have no forum to address their grievances”. He felt that a dialogue between the members of the bar, public, law ministers and judges was very essential. The public, which can make a difference to this rotting system, is just not interested, said Vashi. He had a few valid suggestions to introduce the day system instead of the board system so as to avoid inconvenience caused to public such as to abolish all court vacations so that work should go on unhampered, to abolish court fees and deliver immediate judgments.

The lecture was followed by a brief question-answer session. Mr Kamlesh Godia, Marketing Manager, OIOP proposed the vote of thanks.